The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-04
FARM NOTES.

Sunnower seed is often fed to poultry,
but if too much is given it will cause the
feathers to fall of, as it promotes early
moltiug.
This year the nut crop is bountirul one,
and according to the old bald-hcaded super
stition we will have much snow and ice the
coming winter.-Orsgon (-No.) Press.
Rotation in crops is said to be the surest
and safest plan in farming, and when one
or two years of pasture shall be included
In the rotation the benefits will be greater.
The farmers of Nelson County, Oak,
have formed a pool and propose to sell their
grain this year in a lump. They have 1885,.
900 bushels and will sell to the highest bid
der.
For ten years past tho apple crop has
proved the surest, least expensive, and by
far the best paying crop, all things consid.
cred, on the farm In kansas.-Junctioa CIy
(Ean.) Union.
The farmers are all busy getting up their
winter feed. There will be enough and to
spare, and in consequence all is serene and
happy among our country friends.-Iran-
hoe (Kdn.) Times.
Jasper County claims the longest corn
stalks at the st. Louis fair. They are six
teen feet in length. Vernon County sent
corn to Kansas City seventeen feet and
two inches in length.-Nerada (-Ho.) Nail
No better use can be made of the soap
suds on wash days than to FIRST scrub the
pigs, if not to many of them, and then pour
it along the celery rows. Soap uds make
an excellent fertilizer for both celery and
asparagus.
1t may be expensive to employ an mex
perienced mixer. Farming, like other &C.
equations, depends on knowledge So
called cheap labor may be very costly in
the end, ard more so in the dairy than in
any other work on the farm.
The farmer cannot well get along with
out having at least few cows. He is
therefore interested, be it ever so little, in
making them pay, and cannot afford to shut
his eyes to An opportunity of acquiring
points on profitable dairy management.
Grease Of any kind will destroy lice on
cattle, but the use OF grease to a great ex-
tent will injure the cattle. If a single ami
NAL be infected with lice all the others will
soon be in the same condition. A pound OF
carbolate OF lime naked with a bushel Of
fine, dry dirt freely scattered on the backs
Of the animals 10 a harmless remedy, and
will prove successful if used daily.
Cream is more valuable than butter,
since it is equal to butter and buttermilk,
although the impression seems to prevail
with most milk producers that the one
great and only legitimate end Of milk and
cream is to make butter, and q sense of
waste and misuse Involuntary arises when
ever either is used for any other purpose;
while, in fact, butter making is the least
useful purpose for which milk is employed.
The German Government has completely
eradicatcd the Colorado beetle, or potato
bug, from the fields Of the kingdom by the
timely use OF poisons, and the til!ing 81 the
tracts OF land on which the pest had ap-
peared. There is no doubt but what equally
energetic measures in this country would
produce the same result, but the matter has
been allowed to lapse along until the beetle
has spread throughout the country. The
insect was imported into Germany in car
goes Of American potatoes.